{"id":9364,"date":"2019-12-19T10:07:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=9364"},"modified":"2019-12-19T10:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:07:04","slug":"youth-pie-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/19\/youth-pie-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"New report, <i>Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie 2019,<\/i> breaks down where children and teenagers are locked up in the U.S., where, and why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are <b>48,000 children and teenagers<\/b> locked up in the United States, and where exactly <i>are<\/i> they? How are the juvenile justice system and the criminal justice system similar, and how are they different? In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/reports\/youth2019.html\">new infographic and report,<\/a> the Prison Policy Initiative answers these unexpectedly difficult questions about youth confinement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"featureimage\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/reports\/youth2019.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/youth_pie_2019.png\" alt=\"Pie chart showing how many youth are locked up in the U.S., what types of facilities they are held in, and the offenses for which they are held.\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/reports\/youth2019.html\"><i>Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie 2019<\/i><\/a> reveals failures in the juvenile justice system that <b>mirror failures in the adult system,<\/b> including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li><b>Unnecessary pretrial detention.<\/b> On any given day, 9,500 youth &#8211; or 1 in 5 youth in confinement &#8211; are locked up before trial.<\/li>\n<li><b>Incarceration for the most minor offenses.<\/b> 19% of youth in juvenile facilities are locked up for &#8220;technical violations&#8221; of probation or parole, or for status offenses (behaviors for which an adult would not be prosecuted).<\/li>\n<li><b>Glaring racial disparities.<\/b> While only 14% of children under 18 in the U.S. are Black, 42% of boys and 35% of girls in juvenile facilities are Black.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the number of youth in confinement is also falling dramatically. &#8220;At a time when cutting the adult prison population by 50% strikes many people as radical, <b>states have already cut the number of confined youth by 60% since 2000,<\/b> and that trend is continuing,&#8221; said report author Wendy Sawyer. The report describes state reforms that have helped shrink the juvenile justice system, such as:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li><b>Reducing incarceration for certain offenses,<\/b> including status offenses, technical violations, and misdemeanors<\/li>\n<li><b>Closing large detention facilities<\/b> and developing new community-based supervision and treatment programs<\/li>\n<li><b>Limiting the amount of time<\/b> youth may be incarcerated or under court supervision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;States have reduced youth incarceration <b>without seeing an increase in crime,<\/b> which is very encouraging, but there are still far too many youth in confinement,&#8221; said Sawyer, &#8220;Today, there are 13,500 youth locked up away from home for drug possession and low-level offenses, not to mention 7,000 other youth detained before trial. That means this country still has a lot of work to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the full report and more infographics, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/reports\/youth2019.html\">https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/reports\/youth2019.html.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when cutting the adult prison population by 50% seems radical to many people, states have already cut the number of confined youth by 60% since 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[46],"class_list":["post-9364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9367,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions\/9367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}